Preliminary call for expressions of interest for industrial cooperation

Aim of the call : To encourage the partnering process between ASTERICS members and industries on following potential but not exhaustive list of innovation-related objectives of OBELICS workpackage.

• Co-funded Hardware or software development (ex. Tape libraries, innovative databases software, Hierarchical Storage Management software…)
• Consulting contracts to support technological survey.
• Co-funded PhD scholarships (Industry-Academic PhD thesis).
• Subcontracting to industries/ to subsidiaries of industries / to SMEs some benchmark prototypes about new computing and data architectures.

We are also open to suggestions and proposals from industries for this call.  

Budget :  As a result of this call, a funding support up to €300,000 will be provided from ASTERICS project. The OBELICS management considers expressions of interests from industries for 2-6 projects with a contribution from ASTERICS between €10000 & €60000 per project. This does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.

 Application Procedure:

The application must include:

• Executed PDF copy by email to waghlapp [dot] in2p3 [dot] fr